This is “Somebody Always Will”. After every assault by the enemy, somebody always survives. Even though there are others that fall, there are always those who remain standing and are able to survive what kills others. There will be people who will go through terrible times and some will make it out and some will not. The devil will never get us all. Someone always makes it through. Why can’t that person be you? We are facing a flood of Satan’s attacks in 2020—but we have a faithful God and somebody will always make it because we serve a mighty God. There is great hope for the people of God!
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>> I do have a word
from the Lord for somebody.
Somebody needs to hear
what I’m gonna say today.
Job 1:15: “When the Sabeans
raided them
and took them away –
indeed they had killed
the servants with the edge
of the sword,”
listen to these words,
“And I alone have escaped
to tell you!”
Verse 16.
“While he was speaking,
another came also and said,
‘The fire of God
fell from Heaven,
and burned up the sheep
and the servants,
and consumed them.'”
Here it is again.
“And I alone have escaped
to tell you.”
Any time you see
the same words
over, and over, and over,
there’s a sermon in it.
Always.
Every time.
Just remember that.
God wastes no verses,
and if He says something over,
and over, and over,
He’s trying
to get your attention
to say something.
And this kinda sounds like 2020.
It kinda sounds like this year.
It’s not that we’ve dealt
with one thing.
It’s one thing after another,
after another,
after another,
after another.
Watch.
Verse 17.
So you already
had two incidents,
and only one guy escaped
the first one.
Another guy escaped
the second crisis.
Verse 17.
“While he was speaking,
another one also came
and said, ‘The Chaldeans formed
three bands,
raided the camels,
took them away, yes,
killed all your servants,” —
All your employees quit.
“With the edge of the sword;
I alone have escaped
to tell you!'”
Verse 18.
“While he was yet speaking,
another also came and said,
‘Your sons and daughters
were eating and drinking wine
in their oldest brother’s house,
suddenly a great wind came
from across the wilderness,
struck the four corners
of the house,
it fell on the young people…
they’re all dead,” but,
“‘I alone have escaped
to tell you.’
Then Job arose,
and tore his robe,
and shaved his head.”
If ever he was gonna quit,
this was the time to do it.
If ever he was gonna lose
faith in God,
this was the time to do it.
If anybody had an excuse
to say I’m out, I’m done –
I don’t believe in God anymore,
I don’t believe in
the Bible anymore,
I don’t believe in nothing –
it was Job.
“Then Job arose,
tore his robe,
shaved his head,
fell on the ground,
and worshiped.
And he said,
‘Naked I came
from my mother’s womb,
naked shall I return there.
The Lord gave,
the Lord has taken away;
Blessed be the name
of the Lord.'”
So I wanna talk to you
for a few moments about this.
What is so evident in this text
is that it’s a time of tragedy,
and crisis, and trial,
and difficulty after difficulty.
Just when you think
it can’t get worse,
it gets worse.
And every time, though,
the scripture –
for a reason –
points out that the servant
would say, “and I alone.”
I alone.
I’m the only one
who made it out.
All the others –
it wiped them out,
but I made it.
I alone made it.
When it looked like
nobody could, somebody did,
and somebody always will.
I wanna preach on that
subject today:
“Somebody Always Will.”
Did you notice
that out of every trial,
no matter how severe it was,
somebody always made it out
to tell the story?
And what kills others,
and what takes others down,
and what causes others
to give up,
and what causes other people
to let their dream die –
there’s always somebody
who’s gonna get out of it,
and come through it,
and tell the story
of how it took them out,
but I survived.
Somebody always
will make it through.
Well, it took others out,
but somebody always
made it through.
The devil never has
and never shall get ’em all.
Upon this rock
I will build my church,
and the gates of hell
shall not prevail.
Somebody is going
to make it out.
And you may be going
through something,
and you may be facing things,
and the enemy’s whispering –
nobody else has made it.
Nobody else can live it.
Nobody else can stand.
Nobody else can live
like they oughtta live.
So why are you even trying?
When nobody could,
somebody did,
and somebody always will.
When I read the scriptures –
in Genesis,
we have Satan presented
as a hideous serpent.
But then you go to the Book
of Revelation,
and he is a devouring dragon.
And that dragon has a flood
when he opens his mouth –
that comes out of his mouth.
And I believe
that we are facing a foe
that is at flood stage.
The enemy’s flood
is coming against the world,
and this nation,
and our families,
and our lives.
People in this year perhaps
have suffered more setbacks
and more battles.
It wasn’t just one thing,
but it was one thing
after another.
But somebody always
made it through.
Somebody made it out.
And we’re sitting in this room
today as a testimony.
I still believe,
and I still am standing,
and I still know that God
is my defense.
[applause]
Isaiah 59:19 said,
“When the enemy comes
in like a flood.”
At flood stage,
“The Spirit of the Lord
will raise up
a standard against him.”
With smugness,
and arrogance, and conceit,
the devil has plotted
and planned and thought
that his plan was undefeatable.
Only to find out
that throughout
the Bible always,
God had somebody who made it
through what took out
and would have taken out
anybody else.
And they made it through
because of their faith.
And the reason
that I’m preaching this
is since somebody always will,
it oughtta be you.
You oughtta make up your mind –
I’m gonna make it.
I’m not gonna quit,
I’m not gonna lay down,
and I’m not gonna be
a statistic.
I’m going to make it
because God is on my side.
Hell’s theme song
to the young people,
to the youth in this day,
and especially in the middle
of this pandemic,
is everybody is doing it.
That’s hell’s theme song.
Everybody’s doing it.
Everybody’s compromising.
Everybody’s partying.
Everybody’s getting high.
Everybody’s getting drunk.
Everybody’s losing
their morality.
Everybody’s sleeping around.
Everybody’s doing it.
Nope.
That’s not true.
Somebody always will —
There’s somebody
who’s living right.
There’s somebody
who’s saying no.
There’s somebody who’s saying
I love Jesus so much,
I’d rather have God’s purpose
in my life than any —
There’s somebody
who’s gonna live holy in 2020.
There’s somebody
who’s gonna abstain
and say I’m waiting
till I get married.
[applause]
But the devil wants you
to think everybody’s doing it.
Everybody.
But he’s a liar.
The thing about the devil
is he hates the Bible.
And the two books that he hates
the most in the Bible
is the Book of Genesis
because that tells
where he started from.
‘Cause God put him
on his belly.
Defeated him.
And he crawled out.
And the devil hates that,
and I enjoy preaching it.
Walked in.
Crawled out.
That’s how he’s gonna leave
this service.
Walked in and crawling out.
‘Cause Jesus is Lord.
Every knee must bow.
Every tongue must confess
that Jesus is Lord.
And then there’s the last book.
And I just wanna beat up
on the devil a little bit
’cause if you let him do
all the talking,
you’re gonna lose.
You gotta learn
how to trash-talk
the devil sometimes,
and I plan on doing
that this morning.
He’s not gonna win.
Cancer’s not gonna kill you.
Heart disease –
God’s not through with you.
God’s not finished with you.
And the devil may have walked
in big, bad, and bold,
but he’s gonna crawl out.
Because the blood of Jesus –
you’re standing in blood.
You’re sitting in blood.
You’re covered by the blood.
And somebody always did,
and somebody always will.
I alone have made it out
to tell the story.
When I think about –
not only does he hate
the Book of Genesis
that tells where he came from,
but he hates
the Book of Revelation
because it tells
where he’s going.
The Bible said
in the Book of Revelation
that one angel –
not a legion.
One angel.
All the hell,
all the violence,
all the murder,
all the disasters
of the universe
come from this thing called –
this being called Satan.
Lucifer’s spirit.
And all its gonna take
when God says that’s enough
is one angel.
The Bible said
it’s gonna take one chain.
And then it says
He’s gonna take the key
and unlock
the bottomless pit.
Anybody got a set
a keys on you?
Anybody got any keys?
Thank you.
But can you imagine?
One angel.
One chain.
And then He’s gonna take
one key.
[rattling]
Every time the devil
hears a believer unlock
their car…
[rattling]
…he goes into a panic attack.
[laughter]
Is that that angel?
[rattling]
Is he coming for me
with that chain and that key?
Because the Bible said
He’s gonna unlock the pit
and throw the devil in it.
And I love this.
And it said
and he shall be shut up.
[applause]
There’s coming a day
when the accuser, the liar,
the deceiver,
the fearing voice of Satan
is gonna be shut up.
And every time
you rattle your keys –
you oughtta get your keys out,
and rattle ’em,
and remind him.
Not only did you walk in
and crawl out, but one day
you’re gonna be shut up
for eternity by one angel
and one key.
Now you need to sanitize those.
I’m telling you today
that there’s people
that are going through things
that you’re going through,
and they’re gonna survive it.
And if you don’t change
your mindset, you’re not.
Because if you don’t get
something in your soul –
somebody’s gonna always
be praising God.
Somebody’s —
God is going to be praised.
And if the enemy
takes everything we’ve got,
some of us have made up
our mind.
And you say,
that’s easy to say.
Yeah, but I just know.
I just know at this point,
nothing can separate me
from the love of God.
And so I’ve got plenty
to praise Him for.
He loves me.
And even if I lose
the house or the car,
He loves me.
So I’m gonna keep on
praising Him.
And I’m gonna tell you
something else.
The devil can’t stop
the Rapture from taking place.
The Rapture is going to happen,
and he’s not in control.
He said to Noah, go in.
He said to Lot, come out.
And He’s about to say
to the church, come up.
And the trumpet
is going to blast.
And when the trumpet sounds,
the dead in Christ
are gonna rise,
and we who are alive and remain
will be called up together
to meet the Lord in the air.
And what a day
that’s gonna be as we —
and it’s gonna look
like Tribulation
is gonna take over.
Antichrist.
Six, six, six
on planet earth.
And just as that’s starting
to take over –
when it looked like
nobody could,
somebody will,
because somebody always has.
And we’re gonna go flying
through the air
to a place called,
“New Jerusalem.”
And you can laugh at it,
and you can mock it,
and you can say
that’s that ol’ stuff,
but one of these days
the trumpet is going to sound,
and we are going to leave
this world –
goodbye.
[cheering]
Somebody will.
Not everybody in here.
There’s wheat and there’s tares,
and they’re growing
up together.
But somebody’s
gonna be living right.
Somebody’s gonna be
loving everybody.
Somebody’s gonna be washed
in the blood of the Lamb.
Somebody’s gonna be ready
for the sound.
Not everybody.
But somebody.
Somebody will.
Somebody will.
I intend to be somebody.
When I think about how
that the devil schemed
and designed ways to stop
God’s plan of salvation,
how that with the first family –
Adam and Eve.
And they had a son named Cain,
and then they had
another son named Abel.
And the devil thought
when he heard the prophecy
that the woman’s child
would crush –
there would come a messiah
through the woman –
in Genesis was the prophecy.
There would come a redeemer
and a messiah,
and He’ll crush
your head, serpent.
And so the devil
started getting nervous,
and he began his addiction
to Xanax then.
And he began to worry.
Just began to worry and be —
And so he said,
“I know what I’ll do.
I’ll mess up that lineage.
I’ll mess up the blood line
so that a messiah can’t come.”
And so with the first family,
Cain slew Abel.
And when he slew Abel,
the devil thought
he had messed up the plan.
But the Bible said that Eve
had another son named Seth,
and the bloodline
kept flowing.
The bloodline kept flowing.
And then the devil said,
“Well, I know what I’ll do.
I’ll mess up
the whole human race.”
And in Genesis 6,
it said that the sons of God —
which is a biblical reference
to the angels of God –
they had relations
with the daughters of men.
Your Bible teaches
that there was a time
when fallen spirits with Lucifer
had physical relationships
with daughters of men on earth,
and they created
a freak race of giants.
And the next verse says
and there were giants
in the land.
And so the devil thought,
I have messed up the plan of God
to produce a redeemer
because I’ve messed up
the bloodline
of the human race.
And God said, “Oh, no.
Somebody’s gonna
get outta here.
Noah, build an ark.
Build an ark.
I’m gonna have to clean
the whole human race out.
But my plans –
I got somebody.
I always got one little family.
Just one little family
that’s gonna get in the ark,
and they’re gonna float
right outta this mess
into a new world.
And I’m gonna start
all over again,
and they’re gonna,” —
And then the devil said,
“I gotta stop this thing.”
So God says, “Well,
it’s about time for me
to raise up a nation now.
‘Cause if I’m gonna have
a redeemer,
I gotta have a nation,
and the prophet said
that it would be from
the Tribe of Judah.
So I gotta get a nation
going here.
But the problem is,
my chosen people are over there
in Egypt in slavery,
so I need a deliverer.
I need somebody to go say
let my people go.”
And God says,
“I’ll just have me somebody
at this time
who’ll be a deliverer,
and I’ll call his name Moses.”
And the Bible said
that Moses was born,
and Pharaoh —
this is the devil working,
saying, “I’m gonna kill ’em all.
I’m gonna get ’em all.”
And he said, “kill all the boys.
Kill all the male children.
Kill ’em all.
Kill ’em all.
Of a certain age,
just kill ’em all.”
So that —
that race that would ultimately
produce Mary,
and Mary would have
a little lamb.
‘Cause the blood line
of Jesus came from God.
God was the male,
and Mary was the female.
And so the lineage
is all connected
to Mary, you see.
And so —
listen to me.
So what that was about
was that Pharaoh’s decree –
and he’s killing
all the babies, but —
Oh, he got ’em all.
He got ’em all.
No, you didn’t get ’em all.
There was one in a little basket
that went floating
down the river.
Ended up in the palace
and ended up walking up
to Pharaoh and saying,
“Let my people go.”
‘Cause God always has one
that’s gonna get out.
And the devil says,
“I gotta try again.
I gotta get a master plan.
I know what I’ll do.”
And he gets him a man
by the name of Herod.
This is many generations later.
And the devil thinks,
“I sense something’s coming.
I’m nervous.
I’m nervous.
That blood line
is still intact.”
And Herod hears about
a star over a manger.
And he says let’s —
“I’ll put a decree out.
We’re gonna kill all the babies
two years of age
and under ’cause I gotta stop
this messiah stuff
from happening.”
And the devil thought
he killed them all.
But one night,
a little angel showed up
and said, “Mary and Joseph,
that little baby
you’ve got is in danger.
Get outta here.
Go to Egypt.
Just cross the border
and get outta here,
and hold it down there until —
hold the Baby Jesus down there
until the coast is clear.”
And they slipped out.
And Herod thought,
“I killed ’em all.”
And by the way,
the reason that the devil
wants to kill all the babies
in every generation,
including this one,
is because he knows deliverance
is coming through the seed.
He knows there’s prophets
out there.
He knows there’s evangelists
out there.
He knows there’s doctors
out there that could have
the cure of cancer.
He knows there’s all kinds
of things and deliverance
that wants to come
into the earth.
‘Cause God’s a good God.
He’s not a mad, mean God.
He’s a good God.
But the devil wants to wipe
out the babies.
And just when it –
and I love what Jesus said.
I love what Jesus –
you know, Herod was the one
who tried to kill Him.
And 30 years later,
after He’s grown up from a baby,
the Bible said that Herod
sent word and said
“Are you the Messiah?”
And He said these words
in Luke 13:32″
He said “You go tell
that fox,” —
He thought
he was gonna get me.
That ol’ fox thought
he would kill me
when I was a baby.
And listen to what Jesus’
answer was.
It’s kinda sharp.
He said, “You go tell
that fox,”
speaking of Herod,
“You tell him
that I cast out devils,
and I do cures.
And then it kinda
gets a little –
He just puts it on him.
He says,
“and I’m gonna do it today,
and I’m gonna do it tomorrow,
and on the third day,
I’m gonna be perfected.
If you think it’s something
what I’m doing now –
you tell that ol’ fox
that tried to kill me
when I was just a little baby
that I do miracles,
I do cures,
I do healings,
I cast out devils.
And on the third day,
if you think
that’s something,” —
and he didn’t know
what He was talking about.
“But on the third day,
when I come up outta that grave,
I’m gonna have all kinds
of deliverance and victory
going on in the earth.
You can’t stop it.”
The devil thought
that he could stop it,
but the truth is
he missed one.
One got away.
Every time, one got away.
Jesus got away.
Job 1:15:
“I only have escaped.”
Job 1:16:
“I only have escaped
to tell you.”
After every devastating blow,
somebody survived
to tell the story.
There will never be a time
when the devil gets them all.
Somebody’s gonna come out.
Somebody’s gonna stand out.
Somebody’s gonna be a young man,
a young woman of character
and integrity.
Somebody’s gonna say
I am willing to be the one.
I am okay with being
that somebody.
Somebody is going
to make it out.
The only thing worse
than a compromiser is thinking
that you’re the only one.
And that’s what happened
to Elijah.
In 1 Kings 19,
the Bible said that he –
Elijah got feeling
sorry for himself,
and he said, “God,
I’m the only one living it.
I’m the only one
who’s not doing all this stuff.
I’m the only one
who’s not compromising.
I am the last bastion
of holiness.
I am it.
Nobody else is living clean.
Nobody else loves you.”
And God said,
“You don’t know
what you’re talking about.
I have 7,000 people
who have not bowed their knee.”
Somebody needs to hear today
that you’re not
the only one.
When you go off to college,
when you go off to school,
when you go back to school –
the devil loves to tell you
everybody’s compromising.
Everybody’s doing it.
Everybody’s letting down.
Everybody is living wild.
No, they’re not.
Somebody’s living for God.
Somebody loves the Lord.
I remember when I was coming up,
and I just made up my mind.
I was gonna keep myself
till marriage.
I was just gonna –
I was gonna do it.
And the devil said,
“Everybody’s doing it.”
Even my friends made fun
of me sometimes.
But you know what?
You can do it
if you wanna do it.
Somebody’s gonna do it.
Somebody’s gonna live right.
Somebody’s gonna live clean.
Why don’t you be that somebody?
Why don’t you make up
your mind?
Somebody will,
and it might as well be me.
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